Marc Boorshtein wrote:
one thing occured to me. how do the "for profit" linux distros do it?
just about every linux distro includes bdb. I wonder if there is a
licensing loophole for that?
Good point there has to be some sort of exception here. I was
specifically thinking about subversion and how others are embedding it
into their applications. Hope the email to Sleepycat sheds some more
light - let's see what they say.
Cheers,
Alex
marc
On 7/23/05, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marc Boorshtein wrote:
While IANL, I have run into these types of situations while building
commercial software and the company building the commercial software
that is integrating apacheds (and so JE) would have to buy a
re-distrobution license from sleepycat. Even though it's integrated
into apacheds, it can't be relicensed as you (or whomever owns the
copyright for apacheds) do not own the copyright for JE. The only way
to get around this is to ask sleepycat for an excemption for anyone
who uses apacheds in comercial products (which i doubt).
marc
On 7/23/05, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all,
I've been debating the use of JE rather than JDBM for use in the Apache
Directory Server. I have been meaning to do this since this article but
had questions regarding licensing:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1615549,00.asp
I do have a couple concerns associated with licensing. First I'm trying
to determine if using JE and the exceptions in licensing make it
compatible with the ASL. Fundamentally I would like to be reassured
that the following situation does not limit those using Apache Directory
Server:
Company A decides to integrate Apache Directory Server which now uses JE
into their product which they sell.
Does the license for JE require company A to have to license JE from
SleepyCat?
Thanks Marc for the response. I will see if I can follow up with
SleepyCat for an exception even if it does not look like an easy thing
to do.
Alex
